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Re: Speakers Blast Sound Of Baby Crying As Part Of Protest In Philly

I am all for protesting and even picketing places of business. But I have to draw a line at a person’s home. You would think there would be noise ordinances in residential areas. Find out where the organizers live and go protest THEIR homes.

Re: Speakers Blast Sound Of Baby Crying As Part Of Protest In Philly

Originally Posted by Objective-J

usually construction does, its complete BS to limit a person to an hour a day to doing work on his own property and house. Not yelling at you im just venting about how unbelievable pissed id be if the cops showed up and told me i could only work on my driveway and hour a day.

Re: Speakers Blast Sound Of Baby Crying As Part Of Protest In Philly

Not gonna lie, these Philly residents have more patience than I would. I would take matters in to my own hands if the law can't do anything for me.

Originally Posted by jamesrage

If it wasn't for breaking news rules the thread title would be "union thugs annoy residents of apartment building because they didn't hire a union electrician".

Speakers Blast Sound Of Baby Crying As Part Of Protest In Philly - Philadelphia News, Weather and Sports from WTXF FOX 29
PHILADELPHIA - It's a union protest designed to bring you to tears.
Residents at the Vista apartment building on the 2800 block. of N. 47th St. in Philadelphia's Wynnefield section are losing their minds over a recording played by protesters from IBEW local 98.
Last Wednesday, the union set up an iPod and loudspeakers that plays this recorded message: "Your community is crying for jobs, participation and fair wages." It's what comes next that brings a tear to the eye: an extended crying jag by a seemingly fussy infant.
The recording- which began last Wednesday- runs each weekday from around 8 a.m. to mid-afternoon.
"I know everybody says they've got their rights," says longtime apartment resident Jean Smith, "and that's fine. But don't we have rights too, that we have to hear this constantly- every day?"
The electricians are protesting the use of a non-union contractor to do electrical work on renovations at the apartment building.
Residents say they have nothing against organized labor making a point, but this?
"The crying of the baby- it doesn't give them no sympathy," says apartment dweller David Dickson. "It's not helping them."
Saundra Terrell agrees. "They don't seem to care! Even when we approached them nicely on the first day, they seemed to ignore us."

Re: Speakers Blast Sound Of Baby Crying As Part Of Protest In Philly

Not gonna lie, these Philly residents have more patience than I would. I would take matters in to my own hands if the law can't do anything for me.

If I was those residents I think I would have been looking for a firehose or hooking up a garden hose to a sink and then blasting those so called protester's sound equipment.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"

Re: Speakers Blast Sound Of Baby Crying As Part Of Protest In Philly

Originally Posted by lizzie

My attitude is *I won't make you listen to my classical, if you won't make me listen to your heavy metal*.

I'm not a fan of country music at all, and my husband is. His favorite band is Brooks and Dunn, and I loathe those guys. Something about their sound just makes my underwear bunch up. So every now and then, he'll sneak the CD in the player, and I'll give him a minute or two, and then I'll tell him, "OK when you are done, it's my turn. And I think I'll listen toooo........... rap."

Bye, bye Brooks and Dunn.

~*~That's part of your problem: you haven't seen enough movies. All of life's riddles are answered in the movies.~*~

Originally Posted by Checkerboard Strangler

November 2018, vote as if your lives depend upon it, because they just might.